On this day: February 7

The Mississippi River is rocked by earthquakes, Baltimore burns, Chaplin debuts "The Tramp," The Beatles arrive in America, and space shuttle astronauts make the first untethered spacewalk, all on this day.

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1870: Psychiatrist Alfred Adler, who founded the school of individual psychology and developed the theory known as inferiority complex, is born near Vienna, Austria-Hungary. Adler began his medical career as an ophthalmologist, but later turned to mental disease and became a prominent member of the psychoanalytical group that formed around Sigmund Freud in 1900.

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